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Rush Limbaugh: I am ‘ashamed of my country’

Rush Limbaugh said Thursday that for the first time he’s “ashamed” of the United States — this as President Barack Obama and Democrats plead to the public to urge Congress to reach a deal on the sequester.

“Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my country,” the conservative commentator said on his radio program.

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He added: “To have our common sense and intelligence insulted the way it’s being is — it just makes me ashamed.”

Limbaugh’s comments come as Obama and Democrats are warning Americans about what they say will happen if Congress doesn’t avert sequestration, the automatic $1.2 trillion in federal spending cuts over the next decade that are scheduled to take effect March 1.

Obama and other say the sequester would be a devastating blow to the economy and to government agencies — with the effects felt everywhere from longer lines at the airport to fewer meat inspections.

Limbaugh’s take? Don’t get roped in.

“Here they come sucking us in, roping us in, panic here, fear there, crisis, destruction, no meat inspection, no cops, no teachers, no firefighters, no air traffic control,” Limbaugh said.

He continued: “I’m sorry, my days of getting roped into all of this are over. We have the media play along with all of this, the ruling class of both parties play along all of this — it’s insulting. I don’t know how else to describe it.”